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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TP wants the tax revenue that businesses generate, which hugely exceeds residential.

They know how to speak in the platitudes their dumbed-down, Kool-aide swilling  citizens like hearing: walkable communities, car free living, etc..... but when it comes to putting money in the town piggybank, they know what they really need in place. And it ain't 40 units of mixed income apartments.  [/quote]

WTF are you talking about?

A mixed use building would have ground floor retail so even a modest residential building of 5-6 stories would likely generate far more in taxes from 5 stories of residential compared to 1 story of retail (in this case the 2nd floor).[/quote]

Apparently I DO know what I'm talking about, because my scenario is what's getting built... and yours isn't. So that sorta proves WTF I'm talking about. [/quote]

The result in this case does not in any way prove your point.  Less than optimal things get built for all sorts of reasons - the zoning, neighborhood opposition, lot size, available financing, politics, market demand, what the owner wants to do or needs on the lot etc.  But you love to make speculative assumptions.[/quote]

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